AIX

Hi guys, I'm having a issue with a windows file from, at first the file is readed like one big and extense line and the famous "Ctrl+V Ctrl+R" or "^M return carriage"... fixed with:

Code:

perl -pe 'if ( s/\r\n?/\n/g ) { $f=1 }; if ( $f || ! $m ) { s/([^\n])\z/$1\n/ }; $m=1' $file_input > file_output

before, the file assembly the columns... fixed too:

Code:

sed -r 's/(.{11})/\1 /'

Here the ".{11}" is the positional new field separator.

But.. I'm not so good with locale and chartset in aix (is cuckoo for my... sometimes )

my question this:
mi file contains latin1 characteres, like "ñ, é, ü, etc" im looked for iconv but doesnt work for me at moment, i tried next lines:

Knowing the charset charset=iso-8859-1 moving the file to ubuntu and running "file -i".

Code:

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 file_input > file_output

but.. nothing

then

Code:

iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t ISO-8859-15 file_input > file output

Neither...

I tried with an ubuntu distro and the results are seems... So, ayone has had this problem before? i did browse the entire network today and the answer are allways with iconv or vim, but vim doesn't have ":set filesetting" or ":set codesetting"

Any idea or suggestions?

Thanks and regards!

Please elaborate what you mean with "nothing", "neither" and "this problem".

Is the file unchanged ? the output empty ? Any error message ?

Sorry for the unclearly post.

Well, wen i make de iconv with before parameters the file maintain unreconozing the latin characters as before i explain. instead show "nuñez" it shows "nu#ez". The procedure iconv doesn't return error, but the convertion is not maked

Thanks a lot for your time

Try the dos2unix tool. UNIX end of lines are different than DOS. Also try strings to eliminate other non-printable characters. You can also use the tr -d command or sed -e...as in...unix to dos essentially does something like

Code:

sed -i -e 's/$/\r/' file

Dos to unix does something like...

Code:

sed -i -e 's/$/\r/' file

or

Code:

sed -i -e 's/\r//' file

Hi blackrageous, thanks for your answer, unfortunable the file is not changeable because in the middle the file come with a special treatment and this treatment is not revealed, so imposible solution.

Thanks all of you for help and time

How about posting (a part of) that file, eventually distorting sensitive data, so we can check ourselves what's going on?

BTW - did you try to iconv from sth like windows-1250?